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ALUMNI NEWS
Khalifa Abdulla (M.S. ’83)
Khalifa will give the keynote address, “Reviewing
the latest policy developments for the Libyan
mining industry”, at the international MENA Mining
Conference 2010 in Dubai this upcoming October.
The address will present an overview of the regulatory
developments and investment trends in Libya, and the
regulatory outlook and foreign investment policies for
the exploration and mining sector in the country. He
has had a tremendous career in economic minerals,
and is currently Chairman of the National
Mining Corporation of Libya.
Nick Azzolina (M.S. ’05)
Today Nick is a Hydrogeologist with Foth
Infrastructure & Environment, LLC in Green Bay,
WI. Life is busy for the Azzolina family (Nick & Julie
foreground and their three great children on vacation
at Custer State Park).
Susannah Ceraldi (B.S. ’01)
Susannah is finishing up
year 3 of teaching Urban
Ecology at a high school
in Brooklyn. She says
it is now hard even to
recall back when she was
just beginning this new
endeavor, after having
served in admissions
at the Sea Education
Association in Woods
Hole and in a science
education camp in the Bay Area. Susannah writes, “I
absolutely LOVE teaching, having a blast.”
Patricia Clay (B.S. ’04)
Patricia
defended
her thesis,
entitled ‘Ar-
Ar Dating of
Young Volcanic
Glass’ this past
March, and
was awarded
her PhD degree
May 2010.
Her research
focused mainly on the application of Ar-Ar
geochronology to volcanic glass from diverse
eruptive environments, and correlating the Ar-isotope
information with chemistry, volatile contents, etc.
She plans to submit a paper or two for publication in
the next few months. Patricia just started a new job
on Monday at the University of Manchester in the
Isotope Geochemistry and Cosmochemistry group
for a two year PDRA position. She’s working on
correlated chronology (Ar-Ar, I-Xe, Rb-Sr) of enstatite
chondrites. Patricia received her BS from SU and MS
from BU where she worked with Ethan Baxter.
Matthew Heumann (B.S. ‘02, M.S. ‘04)
Matthew J. Heumann
successfully defended
his PhD dissertation at
the University of Utah
on Sept. 3rd. The title
of his dissertation is
“Paleozoic-Cenozoic
Evolution of the East
Gobi Fault Zone,
Southern Mongolia: A
Protracted Record of
Intracontinental Deformation
and Basin
Evolution, With Implications
For Tectonics
of Eurasia”. Matt
will start working for